The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-06-17

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brac lunch of the Criterion Club on the
line of his prophetic vision. And on.
Monday night it showed SO palpably
the need of retouching that Caterer
Collins humanely covered it with a
cloth and hid it from tho Implying
glare Of the gas light above it.
''If the members present." by and
by spoke up Bro. Hal Young, late of
Cincinnati. .'would be pleased to hear
a story in which there is no ~extrava-
giant straining after either after a ludic-.
rous or an u~ltra-dramatic effect, in
which I will not attempt to WOO the
comic muse nor niger in doleful dali
lance with %sad-eyed tragedy, and in
the telling Of which truth will be my
prompter, they have only to signify
their pleasure, andI'l lot her co."
No n said he would be pleased to
hear the story, but every one said to
Bro. Young that he might as we'll let
her go.
SIT can't be any worse than yester-
days was" said the caterer.
And SO the story began.
elf there ever was % conscientious
man." said Brother Young, .that man
was my uncle, Reuben ssRashley. He
Wna preacher. Then you might say,
yer! Why shouldn't he be
fousP' But I've known preach
& y time, gentlemen, who were
overwhelmingly burdened with
Bntiousness, after all. But my
Reuben was all conscience, SO to
| could tell you chapters of in
kn6A illustrating his exceeding CON
F~kn.sSusness. He would never eat fish
straw berries for breakfast on Mon
lay. fearing that they might have
.Vbccn caught or picked on Sum
day. Once he married ayoung couple,
and the bridegroom gave him IS as his
fec. At that time my uncle was very
poor. and he was in great need of IS
to buy actual necessities; but an hour
or SO after receiving the fee he learned
that the man who had paid it to him
had sold a load of potatoes to a saloon
keeper in the place, and my uncle was
SO fearful that the $3 was some of the
money the saloonkeeper had made by
selling beer that he told himself that
he intended to return the fee to the
young man ut once; and, do you know.
the fellow was g enough to deny
ever having received the money back,
when I mentioned it to him afterward
in Boosting of my uncle's conscientious
ness.
.sWell, that was the way my uncle
felt about things. He was preaching
in a little town at a small salary.
While he was in that town an old class
mate Of his in college came to see HIM.
The classmate was c%Anvasslng for SUBJ
scribers to a religious magazine, at IS
o subscriber, and my uncle took him
all around and made personal appeals
for him. More than one hundred peo-
pie subscribed, and, at my uncle's
suggestion, paid the moneyin advance.
The classmate went away. The maga-
zines were to commence coming in O
few days. They never commenced.
That was a great blow to my uncle,
and when, one day, he overheard one
of the members of his church say to
another that il the dominic got less
than half of the amount the canvasser
collected he was a fool, it was more
than he could bear, and he resigned al
nce He went away, and some of his
congregation were heartless enough Ia
say it vas q pity he forgot to return
tho $25 advance he had received on bis
salary, when I've often heard my uncle
say he had hard work to get money
from the church at all.
"Thc town he went to from the nm,
appreciative place he so indignantly
left raj q large town. There was Z
chnrchof his denomination there which
had Just been built. There was a deb,
on il, End it had no pastor. My uncl,
Nonsented to take charge of 1T and Sc,
what he could do. Among the mem.
bcrs Of the church was an eccentric ole
gentleman of the name of Jason Horn
He was worth about $25, ZOO, and wa.
a bachelor with two nephews, who ex
pected tn inherit his wealth. About 81,
months after my uncle took charge o
the church old Horn fell i'll. Durin,
the first few days Of his illness he de
clared that he would NOT leave hi
TO any one who was not q mem
The church. His nephews wer,
q them hnych'membe nor at
o6adaaf) but after they had heard .thei
) Nuncle's declarations tlaey suddenly be
! epme deeply inter ed In religion
matters, and the frst thing the tow